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The Internet is a chaotic medium — packets tend to flow from a uniformly distributed set of sources to a variety of destinations. Yet, during distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the chaos suddenly becomes more ordered: A large number of devices send network packets to a limited number of addresses in a small time frame. By […]

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Most of the healthcare organizations hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks by pro-Russia hacktivists in January have one or more level 1 trauma centers, indicating that the attackers aimed to disrupt care for the most critically ill and injured patients, according to a new government report warning of the ongoing and evolving threats. While nuisance hacking […]

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The large-scale shift to remote work and the increased reliance on online services as the result of the global pandemic this year gave threat actors new opportunities to use distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to harass and extort organizations. Providers of DDoS mitigation services reported an overall increase in attack volumes, attack sophistication, and attack complexity […]

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